With this chicken that scared the monkeys, the rest of the village suddenly became honest.

Even if they wanted to know what Mingyue had gotten back from the mountain, the villagers would only choose to observe secretly and spy on the surface, rather than being cheeky enough to rummage through other people's baskets like that man.

In this way, it would be much easier for Mingyue and them to hide their true gains.

According to Yu Jiayan's suggestion, they carried one or two wild animals down the mountain in the open a day or two to let the villagers see them, instead of hiding all the prey in the baskets.

In this way, if they say that the basket is full of dead leaves and branches, others will be much less suspicious.

After all, the baskets of Da Lang and Ji Lang were indeed full of dead leaves and branches, which many people have witnessed.

With so much cover-up, the villagers finally came to believe that they really didn't have much to gain.

With the experience of the previous car, as soon as they heard Mingyue say that they might be targeted by the villagers again when they picked thorny old buds, the people of the Ming family suddenly turned green - they were really afraid of the gossip and various spies of these people.

can let them give up the thorny old buds, but they are reluctant to pay a large sum of money that may be earned.

Especially the old man Ming, his family bought a wooden cart exactly the same as the Huang family a few years ago, and his family bought a half-sized calf that was already able to work in the field a year ago, and the two things together cost his family thirty-two taels.

In addition, Mingcheng and Tao went to the county several times before and after this time, and the cost of carriage and horses, consultation, and medicine were all money.

After his family bought the land, he managed to earn more than 150 taels of silver, but now he only has more than 100 taels left.

After the year, he also wanted to send all the boys in the family to the school to study, which was another big expense, so the old man had already planned to come to his own house with the money from the old bud.

"We can call our relatives and friends to go with us." Mingyue folded her fingers and listed them one by one, "For example, the Huang family next door, and then my grandmother, my mother, my eldest aunt and the third aunt's maiden family, as well as my aunt and sister-in-law's family." ”

Xie was both happy and entangled, happy that he could pull his mother's family again, and he was entangled that the silver could not fit into his pocket.

The Zhou family doesn't care, her mother's family is no worse than the current Ming family, so she doesn't have any sense of urgency about pulling her mother's family.

"Just according to what Mingyue said." Mrs. Ming looked at her wife, "Instead of letting others stare at us all day long, let's just help our relatives." There is one point, I think in addition to these families, it is best for us to bring Lizheng's mother-in-law and son with us. ”

Old Man Ming sighed, "It's okay, just do what you say." ”

"Master, don't be too busy worrying, let's go out of Nanshan, but isn't there still Xishan! I don't dare to bring anyone else in. Mingyue winked playfully at Old Man Ming as she spoke.

Old Man Ming suddenly came to his senses, "Then let's go to Xishan first, and then go to Nanshan." ”

Mingyue didn't object.

Old man Ming has the same concerns as her, there are many villagers digging wild vegetables in Nanshan now, and there are a lot of women and children every day, if they pick in Nanshan first, as soon as the wind spreads, when they go to Xishan, others will definitely stare at them secretly.

If someone is greedy for money and enters the West Mountain, it is good to come out safely, but if he encounters a wolf or a wild boar, then this person's family will be completely ruined.

This is also why Mingyue does not take her relatives into Xishan. She didn't want to end up with her relatives becoming enemies if something happened to her.

It's their own family, and her grandfather and grandmother will only agree to the three big men of Mingdi, Mingcheng, and Mingtang, as well as the older and better Dalang, Erlang, Sanlang, Jiayan, and Mingyue among the younger generations, to go to Xishan, among which Mingyue is still because of the first cut and then the play.

The women and the younger children, the old man Ming did not let them go into the West Mountain.

The next day, the sky had just brightened, and Mingdi, Mingcheng, Mingtang, Dalang, Erlang, Sanlang, Jiayan, and Mingyue entered the West Mountain under the leadership of Old Man Ming.

They carried all the empty baskets in the house, two of which contained clay pots for water, and simple food boxes with snacks, sugar cubes, nuts, dried fruits, and coarse porcelain bowls.

"Sister, you are really powerful, you dare to go up to talk about the conditions in front of our master." Everyone dispersed slightly, and after a group of two began to pick the thorny old buds, San Lang came to Mingyue's side and whispered this.

Mingyue touched his head, "Our master actually loves us very much, he is just used to keeping a straight face." As soon as you see my sister said that she wanted to bring something delicious, didn't our master agree immediately? ”

Saburo shrunk his neck, "That's you!" If we had changed our brothers, we wouldn't have needed our father, and my father would have beaten us to the point of doubt. ”

The words "doubting life" were learned by him from Mingyue.

Mingyue couldn't help laughing, she deliberately tilted her small chin, "Then you have to listen to me in the future, you have to say that you are right in whatever I say, sister, otherwise I will sue my uncle!" ”

San Lang wanted to wail, but he was afraid that his father would be summoned over if he was loud, so he could only complain about Mingyue with a small face, "Sister, you are too bad!" You're wilting badly now, wilting bad! ”

Mingyue smiled but did not speak.

There's no way, she just likes to tease a few children in the family.

It wasn't until the smoke rose from every household in the village that the old man Ming took his family back from Xishan.

Today, they mainly picked the thorny old buds, so in addition to the thorny old buds, they only brought home a box of wild eggs that Saburo occasionally picked up.

"Tired, aren't you? Let's wash up and eat. Mrs. Ming and the other ladies had already prepared warm water and meals, and as soon as Mrs. Ming and the others entered the house, Mrs. Ming immediately brought hot water to wash Mr. Ming's hands and face.

(╯▽╰) It's so fragrant~~" Smelling the bursts of meat fragrance coming from the pot, Mingyue couldn't wait to lift the lid of the pot and eat it immediately.

Erlang and the others also looked greedy, quickly washed their hands and faces, and everyone immediately sat around the table, waiting for Mrs. Ming to distribute the meal.

Mrs. Ming did not adopt the ration system this time, just like during the Chinese New Year, she prepared enough meat for everyone to satisfy their hunger for the family.

Erlang was so happy that he learned from Mingyue to praise Mrs. Ming as "the best milk in the world", San Lang was clever, and after touting Mrs. Ming, he immediately began to tout his mother-in-law and second aunt and third aunt as "the best mother-in-law and aunt in the world".

Of course, after touting their parents, several children did not forget to eat vegetables and noodles.

The braised pork is soft and salty, and the scrambled eggs with shepherd's cabbage are fragrant, and the noodles with fried sauce can't be more delicious.

"Tomorrow, the boss won't go to Xishan, go to the town and sell the thorny old buds we picked today." After the meal, Old Man Ming instructed Mingdi like this.

Ming Di had already guessed that Old Man Ming would arrange this job for him, and he had already planned to drive the ox cart to the town early tomorrow morning, so that he could sneak around from Nanshan to Xishan before the vast majority of the villagers entered Nanshan.